Over a week has passed since Anthony Joshua stopped Jake Paul in the sixth round of their bizarre heavyweight fight in Miami.

A worldwide audience of around 33 million tuned in to Netflix to see the 36-year-old Londoner break Paul’s jaw and clear another hurdle between he and a belated but gigantic all-British clash with two-time heavyweight champion, Tyson Fury.

The fight is far from agreed and both men look certain to take interim fights before negotiations about dates, venues and — most importantly — purses can even begin.

It is believed that Joshua (29-4, 26 KOs) will box again in February or March — legendary Dutch kickboxer Rico Verhoeven has been touted as a potential opponent — whilst rumours persist that if Fury (34-2-1, 24 KOs) does end his retirement, he will do so against Canadian-based Russian, Arslanbek Makhmudov.

Fury’s long-time promoter, Frank Warren, didn’t need to see Joshua labour through five rounds with Paul to shore up his long-held conviction that The Ring's former heavyweight champion has the beating of the two-time unified champion but he is now more confident than ever that Fury, 37, will prove himself the better man in conclusive fashion.

“Tyson will knock him out,” Warren said during an appearance on Sky Sports’ Toe2Toe podcast. “I know he'll knock him out.

“I’ll base it on the fact that he's a big puncher. I'll base it on the fact that AJ is not hard to hit and that he's in with a boxer. He's in with a fighter, a proper fighter. A big fighter who's got a big punch, and who also has got a big chin. Tyson's got good recovery.

“You've seen it yourself. He’s been on the floor and when you think it's all over, he's got up and come back and won fights. He's done that.”

The fight with Paul was Joshua’s first since he was knocked out by Daniel Dubois in the fifth round of a dramatic IBF heavyweight title fight in September 2024 and Warren hasn’t seen anything to shake his belief that Fury will repeat the trick.

“AJ's vulnerable. I feel as confident about him fighting AJ as I did when Daniel Dubois fought him.”